BMW 3 Series amalgam prices – BMW 3 Series amalgam prices BMW reveals that the Active Amalgam 3 Series will amount from £40,255 and acknowledgment about 50mpg
BMW has appear abounding data for the new ActiveHybrid 3 Series, with prices starting from £40,255. 

This amount is for the entry-level SE model, which comes with air-con, all annular electric windows, Bluetooth and a USB socket. Sportier M Sport models amount £43,235, while Modern and Luxury cars are aswell accessible costing £41,235 and £42,735 respectively.

The amalgam BMW 3 Series is powered by a 302bhp 3.0-litre six-cylinder engine from the 335i and a 54bhp electric motor. Together they actuate the Active Amalgam 3 from 0-62mph in 5.3 seconds. 

It can acknowledgment boilerplate ammunition abridgement of 47.9mpg and CO2 emissions of 139g/km, acknowledgment to the electric motor and the actuality the amalgam 3 Series can biking for up to 2.5 afar on array ability alone.

The BMW ActiveHybrid 3 is accessible to adjustment now.

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BMW 3 Series amalgam prices BMW reveals that Active Amalgam 3 Series will amount from £40,255 and manages about 50mpg
BMW has appear abounding data for the new ActiveHybrid 3 Series, with prices starting from £40,255. 

This amount is for the entry-level SE model, which comes with air-con, all annular electric windows, Bluetooth and a USB socket. Sportier M Sport models amount £43,235, while Modern and Luxury cars are aswell accessible costing £41,235 and £42,735 respectively.

The amalgam BMW 3 Series is powered by a 302bhp 3.0-litre six-cylinder engine from the 335i and a 54bhp electric motor. Together they actuate the Active Amalgam 3 from 0-62mph in 5.3 seconds. 

It can acknowledgment boilerplate ammunition abridgement of 47.9mpg and CO2 emissions of 139g/km, acknowledgment to the electric motor and the actuality the amalgam 3 Series can biking for up to 2.5 afar on array ability alone.

The BMW ActiveHybrid 3 is accessible to adjustment now.

For an another analysis of the latest BMW 3-Series appointment our sister website carbuyer.co.uk

SEAT unveils antagonism models SEAT reveals race-ready variants of the Ibiza and Leon at the Worthersee appearance in Austria
SEAT has apparent two antagonism cars based on its Ibiza and Leon models at the Worthersee appearance in Austria. 

The Ibiza SC Trophy uses the two-door adaptation of the bear as its abject and is adapted with a 177bhp 1.4-litre TSI engine and a seven-speed DSG transmission. 

To advice advance administration and achievement the SC Trophy aswell receives a locking cogwheel and antagonism suspension. The brakes accept been upgraded too. Modifications accept aswell been fabricated to the oil sump to atone for the top crabbed armament this car will accept to argue with during antagonism conditions. 

The exoteric modifications cover a axial exhaust, ample rear addition and aggressively flared caster arches, while the berth has been bare out and able with a cycle cage to advance assurance and handling.

The Leon Super Copa has accustomed agnate analysis with data including ample foreground and rear splitters and the getting the added chief alliance racer, it receives an up rated 2.0-litre TSI assemblage which now produces about 296bhp and 340Nm of torque through a six-speed DSG transmission.

Both models are accessible with the Ibiza alternative costing about €31,500 (£25,155) afore tax and the Leon costing €63,000 (£50,311) afore tax. 

Honda UNI-CUB Move over Segway, Honda has appear a different advancement accessory for scooting about indoors

Tired of walking about the office? Honda thinks it has the answer. The new UNI-CUB follows on from the U3-X advancement concept, which was appear in 2009 and appearance advocate acquired from Honda’s apple acclaimed humanoid apprentice Asimo. â?¨

Riders artlessly about-face their weight to accomplish the accessory adapt its acceleration or administration and acknowledgment to the new caster arrangement and the UNI-CUB can even move aslant or ancillary to ancillary authoritative it simple to manoeuvre

around obstacles. â?¨

Honda says the UNI-CUB “promotes accord amid the riders and others”, as the top basement position allows them to advance eye-level acme with added pedestrians. The easily chargeless controls aswell acquiesce added abandon compared to the beforehand U3-X area riders captivated the bench to balance.

The accessory follows on from Honda’s continuing development of next-generation motability devices. It will abide testing at Japan’s National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation from June 2012 through to March 2013. Staff will be assuming demonstrations and anniversary canyon holders will be offered analysis rides.

 

New Mercedes A-Class data – New Mercedes A-Class data The engine agency for the new Mercedes A-Class has been revealed, with an A180 CDI able of a tax-free 98g/km
The new Mercedes A-Class will action class-leading performance, abridgement and emissions acknowledgment to a ambit of distinctively developed turbo petrol and agent engines, all with the latest stop-start tech.

Leading the allegation will be the Renault-derived 1.5-litre agent in the A180 CDI. It emits 98g/km of CO2 – the everyman of any Mercedes – and agency absolution from alley tax. It claims 62mpg ammunition economy, too, while 108bhp and 260Nm of torque should beggarly appropriate pace.

Next in the agent agency is the A200 CDI. It uses Mercedes’ approved and activated 1.8-litre, but is revised to accommodated Euro VI emissions rules: it offers 111g/km of CO2 and 55mpg.

This engine aswell delivers 134bhp and 300Nm of torque. Topping the agent ambit is the A220 CDI, featuring a 168bhp 2.1-litre with 350Nm of torque, for 0-62mph in 7.8 seconds.

But abridgement and emissions abstracts for this car accept yet to be released. All diesels get new hydraulic engine mounts to advice abate beating and noise.

Petrol A-Class buyers can aces from three new turbos. The A180 has a 1.6 with 120bhp and 200Nm of torque, claims 43mpg and emits 128g/km. A higher-performance adaptation of this engine is acclimated in the A200; ability and torque are added to 154bhp and 250Nm.

Finally, there’s the flagship A250, which gets a 2.0-litre petrol turbo with 208bhp and 350Nm, does 0-62mph in 6.6 abnormal and hits 149mph. This engine still offers 39mpg and 143g/km, but is alone accessible with Mercedes’ all-new seven-speed dual-clutch automated box.

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New Mercedes A-Class data The engine agency for the new Mercedes A-Class has been revealed, with an A180 CDI able of a tax-free 98g/km
The new Mercedes A-Class will action class-leading performance, abridgement and emissions acknowledgment to a ambit of distinctively developed turbo petrol and agent engines, all with the latest stop-start tech.

Leading the allegation will be the Renault-derived 1.5-litre agent in the A180 CDI. It emits 98g/km of CO2 – the everyman of any Mercedes – and agency absolution from alley tax. It claims 62mpg ammunition economy, too, while 108bhp and 260Nm of torque should beggarly appropriate pace.

Next in the agent agency is the A200 CDI. It uses Mercedes’ approved and activated 1.8-litre, but is revised to accommodated Euro VI emissions rules: it offers 111g/km of CO2 and 55mpg.

This engine aswell delivers 134bhp and 300Nm of torque. Topping the agent ambit is the A220 CDI, featuring a 168bhp 2.1-litre with 350Nm of torque, for 0-62mph in 7.8 seconds.

But abridgement and emissions abstracts for this car accept yet to be released. All diesels get new hydraulic engine mounts to advice abate beating and noise.

Petrol A-Class buyers can aces from three new turbos. The A180 has a 1.6 with 120bhp and 200Nm of torque, claims 43mpg and emits 128g/km. A higher-performance adaptation of this engine is acclimated in the A200; ability and torque are added to 154bhp and 250Nm.

Finally, there’s the flagship A250, which gets a 2.0-litre petrol turbo with 208bhp and 350Nm, does 0-62mph in 6.6 abnormal and hits 149mph. This engine still offers 39mpg and 143g/km, but is alone accessible with Mercedes’ all-new seven-speed dual-clutch automated box.

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SEAT Mii FR appear Sportier adaptation of SEAT’s city-limits car apparent at the Worthersee affability accident in Austria
SEAT has accustomed its babyish Mii a dosage of attitude. Pictures and data of a adventurous FR adaptation accept been appear advanced of the car’s accessible admission at this week’s Worthersee affability accident in Austria.

This FR-badged adaptation is mechanically identical to the accepted Mii, but adds an arrangement of administration tweaks central and out. And this abstraction car could pave the way for a assembly car.

Finished in Tornado red with atramentous trim on the caster arches, cossack and ancillary sills, the appearance car aswell gets red accents on the 16-inch wheels. Central the red and atramentous affair continues with sports seats and a prominant FR logo on the dash. 

Producting business bang-up Ulf Eberhardt explained the concept: “The Mii is a [VW] accumulation artefact so it does not accept 100 per cent SEAT DNA. This is one way of giving it that DNA.

“We will do FR, but not Cupra. It will be sporty, not absolute powerful. We accept the technology and the ability at our auctioning aural the accumulation to do added – but that would beggarly abacus a 3,000 Euro amalgamation on to a 10,000 Euro car.

Eberhardt is aswell agog to sustain absorption in the Mii by consistently creating new editions, with one a year planned. The aboriginal is pencilled in for mid-2013.

Eberhardt aswell has actual bright account about how the blow of the agency should yield shape. “SEATs attending good, but they charge to attending added like anniversary other. If they all attending different, you get absent in the market, which is a botheration for a abate cast like ours,” he added.

Next Nissan Qashqai The second-generation Nissan Qashqai will ambition the Audi Q3, and our absolute images appearance how it could look
After the delinquent success of the accepted car, it’s time for the Nissan Qashqai’s ‘difficult’ additional album. In 2007, the British advised and congenital archetypal invented the bunched crossover class. Since then, over 160,000 accept been awash (including the Qashqai+2) in the UK – but an all-new adaptation is now on the way and we’ve got the abounding story.

Nissan’s focus this time will be on added appearance and bigger superior in a bid to beat rivals such as the Kia Sportage, Skoda Yeti and Peugeot 3008, and aswell added exceptional antagonism such as the Audi Q3 and BMW X1.

Nissan’s controlling vice-president, Andy Palmer, told us: “The ambit are appealing abundant fixed, so we’ll accept to differentiate the new car in the details.”

That agency the accepted car’s breadth of 4,330mm will abide around unchanged, as will autogenous allowance and the best cossack amplitude of 860 litres with the rear seats folded.

Inspiration for the administration will appear from the Hi-Cross abstraction car – apparent at the Geneva Motor Show beforehand this year – but distilled into a abate package. You can see elements of the Hi-Cross in the angular accept band that runs forth the ancillary of the new Qashqai over the foreground wheelarch and into the bonnet.

Narrow headlights that alloy into the full-width grille actualize a added abreast attending at the front, while a added arresting roof addle-brain and chrome surrounds for the bankrupt accord the car a sportier rear.

It’s on the inside, though, area the new Qashqai will yield the better strides. Palmer said: “Nissan has a calibration for barometer all-embracing superior and fit and accomplishment of its cars. The new Qashqai is the aboriginal archetypal to account a six.”

Another antecedent went into added detail, adding: “Everybody loves the Qashqai’s exterior, but perceived superior on the central lets it down. Rather than accompany the new car up to German superior levels, we wish to beat them.”

A new 1.2-litre turbo petrol engine will alter the 1.6-litre, alms 113bhp and 190Nm of torque. It will acknowledgment over 50mpg and afford beneath than 120g/km of CO2. A 128bhp 1.6 dCi agent promises 60mpg-plus and beneath than 105g/km of CO2.

The new Qashqai goes on auction in 2014, although a abstraction will examination the assembly car at next year’s Geneva show.

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Porsche 918 Spyder arise – Porsche 918 Spyder arise Official pictures and data accept been arise of the amazing new Porsche 918 Spyder, as a ancestor enters the testing phase
Porsche has arise official pictures of its amalgam Carrera GT successor, the Porsche 918 Spyder. These images appearance a pre-production 918, with agnate administration to the 2010 918 abstraction – and Porsche has accepted assembly will activate in September 2013.


Look accomplished the race-inspired accouter and this car shows the final design, which will avowal adaptive aerodynamics. The pictures aswell appearance how the bankrupt arrangement – which has two pipes departure in abstracted bulkheads abaft anniversary bench -is chip into the physique work. Porsche says this start-up diverts calefaction abroad from the lithium-ion array pack.

Also arresting at the rear are tailights that arise to be aerial anon from the all-new Porsche 911. These could be afflicted nearer assembly to fit added snugly in the alcove surrounding them.


Porsche has aswell accepted that the 918 will action adaptive rear-wheel steering, for greater activity in the corners, and that its constituent amalgam drivetrain will bear a absolute of 760bhp and acknowledgment about 94mpg and just 70g/km of CO2. An EV approach will acquiesce the 918 to awning baby distances on electric ability alone.


Power comes from a mid-mounted dry-sump 4.6-litre V8 that’s acquired from the Porsche RS Spyder chase car’s 3.4-litre unit, and is accepted to rev at up to 9,000rpm. Mated to this is a brace of electric motors, one powering the foreground arbor and addition positioned amid the engine and the seven-speed PDK transmission. Peak torque is accepted to be about 880Nm.

A carbon-fibre able artificial monocoque will accomplish the 918 absurd annealed and light, so achievement should be sensational. Expect a 0-62mph time of about three seconds, a top acceleration of 200mph and a lap of the Nurburgring is claimed to yield a simple seven account 22 seconds.

First deliveries of the Porsche 918 Spyder will yield abode in aboriginal 2014, with prices starting at £678,000.

BMW 4 Series Convertible spied – BMW 4 Series Convertible spied The BMW 4 Series Convertible has been spotted testing with its roof down for the aboriginal time
The BMW 4 Series Convertible has been spotted testing with its roof down for the aboriginal time. The 4 Series name will be acclimated on auto and covertible versions of the 3 Series, and is due to go on auction in 2013.


The 4 Series Convertible gets the aforementioned nose, caster designs and autogenous trim as the new 3 Series, but the soft-top model’s wheelbase is 50mm best than the car it replaces, for added amplitude in the aback seats. There should be added baggage amplitude too, even with the top down.


It’s aswell acceptable to counterbalance about 40kg beneath than the approachable 3 Series Convertible, and it’s accepted that the roof will be able to accessible and abutting abundant faster than the accepted car’s time of 23 seconds.


Economy will aswell be improved, acknowledgment to the accession of an EfficientDynamics archetypal with adorning braking, gear-shift indicator and a stop-start system.

The archetypal agency is acceptable tol chase the 3 Series saloon, with a 420d application the 161bhp 2.0-litre agent engine with ammunition abridgement of about 65mpg. Petrol choices will cover a 2.0-litre turbocharged four-cylinder petrol in the 428i, and a 315bhp 3.0-litre turbocharged six-cylinder in the 435i.

The flagship M4 convertible is set to joing the agency in 2014, with a turbocharged six-cylinder bearing about 450bhp. Expect a 0-62mph time of about 4.7 seconds.